You broke the law in sharing classified information and in doing so, endangered the lives of our service members that you are responsible for.

Come on! Is this really leadership? You’re an embarrassment to the United States.

It's just outrageous and disgraceful and sickening to watch.

disgusted by what I saw

If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the…

I have called for your resignation. I didn’t think you were qualified before your confirmation, and you have done nothing to inspire confidence in your ability to lead competently.

Your inability to hold yourself accountable makes you incapable to lead. To lead. This alone makes you unfit to be the secretary of Defense.

You’d think she might have started the meeting with an apology for what happened? Of course not.

That's ridiculous. It's a lie but par for the course for this administration.

How do you not recognize one of two senators in our state? He is not just any senator; he is the first Latino senator to ever represent our state.

You’re not worthy of my attention or my questions. You’re an embarrassment to this country, you’re unfit to lead, and there’s been bipartisan members of Congress that have called for your resignation.

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying soldiers in Los Angeles not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle.

I am Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary.

There was no threat. There was no lunging. I raised my voice to ask a question.

The disgraceful and disrespectful conduct of DHS agents... demands our condemnation.

he’s acting like a “dictator.”

There was no threat. There was no lunging.

The assault on Senator Padilla today was an assault on freedom of speech in our country.